Richard Boyd

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
58 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Richard Boyd is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and Philosophy. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard Boyd has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 11 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 6 papers in Philosophy. Recurrent topics in Richard Boyd's work include Electoral Systems and Political Participation (12 papers), Political Theory and Influence (9 papers) and American Constitutional Law and Politics (5 papers). Richard Boyd is often cited by papers focused on Electoral Systems and Political Participation (12 papers), Political Theory and Influence (9 papers) and American Constitutional Law and Politics (5 papers). Richard Boyd collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Richard Boyd's co-authors include Walter Dean Burnham, Milton Greenblatt, Alberto DiMascio, David Main, Janet Audrain, Karen Gold, Caryn Lerman, Neil E. Caporaso, C. Tracy Orleans and Peter J. Richerson and has published in prestigious journals such as Physics Today, FEBS Letters and American Political Science Review.

In The Last Decade

Richard Boyd

49 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

Critical Elections and the Mainsprings of American Politics. 1971 2026 1989 2007 1971 100 200 300 400 500
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Critical Elections and the Mainsprings of American Politics.
    1971 585 citations Richard Boyd, Walter Dean Burnham Midwest Journal of Political Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Richard Boyd United States 16 849 468 187 169 154 58 1.6k
Jane Green United Kingdom 24 1.2k 1.4× 556 1.2× 286 1.5× 115 0.7× 59 0.4× 66 2.2k
Hugh LaFollette United States 18 273 0.3× 643 1.4× 30 0.2× 65 0.4× 37 0.2× 53 1.8k
H. L. A. Hart United Kingdom 20 1.3k 1.5× 983 2.1× 102 0.5× 335 2.0× 18 0.1× 55 3.3k
Asbjørn Sonne Nørgaard Denmark 18 467 0.6× 545 1.2× 213 1.1× 39 0.2× 7 0.0× 48 1.0k
R. M. Hare United States 20 587 0.7× 538 1.1× 29 0.2× 269 1.6× 26 0.2× 81 3.0k
Thomas Scanlon United States 11 663 0.8× 438 0.9× 39 0.2× 145 0.9× 23 0.1× 17 2.3k
J. S. Haldane United Kingdom 7 638 0.8× 665 1.4× 35 0.2× 211 1.2× 11 0.1× 28 1.8k
Allen W. Wood United States 26 747 0.9× 721 1.5× 25 0.1× 65 0.4× 15 0.1× 92 2.7k
David C. Barker United States 22 333 0.4× 599 1.3× 42 0.2× 54 0.3× 12 0.1× 48 1.1k
Jonathan Cowden United States 12 192 0.2× 347 0.7× 48 0.3× 58 0.3× 11 0.1× 18 806

Countries citing papers authored by Richard Boyd

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Fields of papers citing papers by Richard Boyd

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Richard Boyd

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Boyd, Richard. (2018). Between grammar and style: Adam Smith and the moral geographies of civil society. Political Geography. 67. 115–124. 1 indexed citations
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Boyd, Richard. (2009). “The play’s the thing/Wherein I’ll catch the conscience”: The Legal Community Reads Hamlet. Law Culture and the Humanities. 5(3). 425–451.
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Boyd, Richard. (2005). Politesse and Public Opinion in Stendhal’s Red and Black. European Journal of Political Theory. 4(4). 367–392. 4 indexed citations
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Richerson, Peter J. & Richard Boyd. (2004). Darwinian Evolutionary Ethics: Between Patriotism and Sympathy. 8 indexed citations
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Boyd, Richard. (2004). Uncivil Society: The Perils of Pluralism and the Making of Modern Liberalism. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 20 indexed citations
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Boyd, Richard. (2004). Marx, Tocqueville and Race in America: The “Absolute Democracy” or “Defiled Republic.”. Perspectives on Politics. 2(3). 577–578. 3 indexed citations
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Boyd, Richard. (2001). Thomas Hobbes and the Perils of Pluralism. The Journal of Politics. 63(2). 392–413. 10 indexed citations
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Boyd, Richard. (2000). Representing Political Violence: The Mainstream Media and the Weatherman "Days of Rage". American studies. 41(1). 141–164. 2 indexed citations
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Boyd, Richard & Ann P. Chidgey. (2000). T-cell development and function – a downunder experience. Immunology Today. 21(10). 472–474. 8 indexed citations
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Boyd, Richard. (1997). Frank H. Knight and ethical pluralism. Critical Review. 11(4). 519–536. 2 indexed citations
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Lerman, Caryn, Janet Audrain, C. Tracy Orleans, et al.. (1996). Investigation of mechanisms linking depressed mood to nicotine dependence. Addictive Behaviors. 21(1). 9–19. 181 indexed citations
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Boyd, Richard. (1986). Electoral change and the floating voter: The reagan elections. Political Behavior. 8(3). 230–244. 6 indexed citations
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Boyd, Richard. (1985). Electoral Change in the United States and Great Britain. British Journal of Political Science. 15(4). 517–528. 8 indexed citations
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Boyd, Richard. (1985). Three generations of puritan spiritual autobiography : problems of self-definition in a time of declension. UMI Dissertation Services eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Boyd, Richard & Walter Dean Burnham. (1971). Critical Elections and the Mainsprings of American Politics.. Midwest Journal of Political Science. 15(3). 595–595. 585 indexed citations breakdown →
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Barnard, F. M., Richard Boyd, John Manley, et al.. (1969). Announcements. American Political Science Review. 63(1). 255–255. 1 indexed citations
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Boyd, Richard. (1969). Presidential Elections: An Explanation of Voting Defection. American Political Science Review. 63(2). 498–514. 16 indexed citations
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Boyd, Richard, S. Stephen Kegeles, & Milton Greenblatt. (1954). OUTBREAK OF GANG DESTRUCTIVE BEHAVIOR ON A PSYCHIATRIC WARD. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. 120(5). 338–342. 10 indexed citations
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Kegeles, S. Stephen, et al.. (1952). A Study of Nurse-Patient Interaction in a Mental Hospital. AJN American Journal of Nursing. 52(9). 1100–1100. 15 indexed citations

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